Rujjwal's Notebook

Inside the system

Medicine and American healthcare, seen from the inside: what works, what's broken, and what's just tangled.

A section of Rujjwal's Notebook

September 2026, about 9 minutes

More Than We Measured

What a diabetes drug, a painkiller, and an antacid teach us about the body as a system, and how little we still know.

When I was growing up in Nepal, a country still finding its footing in development, books and the internet were my window into a much bigger world. My math, physics, and biology books told me about galaxies and black holes, quantum physics, gene editing, and modern cancer treatments and biologics.

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